> Ben> You can install Debian over the internet with 2 floppies, or even > Ben> easier (same with RedHat) boot from a tftp server using the tftp > Ben> images. On the Debian box this is as simple as "apt-get install > Ben> tftpd". > > I tried this yesterday, but with no luck :-/ I used the tftpboot.img > from boot-floppies 2.2.12 on my SPARC IPC. When the installation process > need to download the drivers.tgz it fails. On the Debian site there is > no such file, but a driver-1.bin.
Nasty...I wonder what went wrong with that last set of boot-floppies :/ Anyway, you can download the rescue.bin and driver-1.bin, write those to a floppy, and the rest can be done via the internet (or local NFS if you wish to download base2.2.tgz aswell). -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
